Announcing CROSSOVERS EXPANDED VOL. 3!

I have been given the go-ahead to announce that I am currently working on Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3! For the past three years, I and others have been posting new crossover information on the Crossover Universe group on Facebook, and now I am compiling much of that data into a new book! The date of publication has yet to be determined, so stay tuned!

CROSSOVERS EXPANDED shout-out in LOCUS MAGAZINE

I found out yesterday that both volumes of Crossovers Expanded by Yrs. Truly were listed in the October 2016 issue of Locus Magazine, with a short synopsis of what they're about and the contents. Check out this link to purchase the issue and read the writeup.

Crossovers Expanded Proofs

Meteor House's Facebook page just posted this pic with the following text: "Eight (yes eight!) proofs in from the printer over the last few days. These books will all be debuting at FarmerCon!

http://www.pjfarmer.com/upcome.htm"

I could not be happier. Thanks to Michael Croteau, Paul Spiteri, and last but never least the incomparable Win Scott Eckert for giving my first published books a home!

Crossover Cover: Bothon

This issue of Amazing Stories includes Gerald S. Whitehead's "Bothon," a tale of Atlantis and reincarnation. R'lyeh, the sunken city from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos tales, is mentioned. Bothon is originally from Whitehead's Gerald Canevin story "Scar-Tissue." The Canevin story "The Shut Room" has a crossover reference to William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki story "The Whistling Room," further cementing this story in the CU.

A write-up of Whitehead's story along with many other short stories, books, movies, TV shows, audio dramas, and comics, will be included in my forthcoming books Crossovers Expanded Vols. 1 and 2 from Meteor House, companion volumes to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert. Both sets of books, when read in conjunction, give one a true feel for the scope of the Crossover Universe, a term originally coined by Win. The books will debut at FarmerCon/PulpFest in Columbus, OH, on July 21-24, 2016. Win and I will be at the Meteor House booths signing and selling copies, and Keith Howell (cover artist for both volumes) and William Patrick Maynard (author of the foreword for Vol. 2; Win is providing Vol. 1's foreword) will be there and available to sign the books as well.

Crossovers Expanded

The books now have an order page on the Meteor House website. Click this link. :)

As you can see, they will be Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 and 2, rather than Crossovers Volume 3 and 4, since it is an expansion rather than a sequel. After all, it covers the same span of time as the original volumes, rather than picking up after the Time Traveler battled the Morlocks. :) Also, dig those awesome covers by Keith Howell! I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am right now!